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Hierarchical Structure

TYPO3 Hierarchical Structure

TYPO3 is a content management system (CMS) that helps you organize and manage your website. Its hierarchical structure is like a family tree for the content of your website.

  1. Start page: The start page is at the top. It is the starting point of your website.
  2. Subpages: Below the home page, you can have several subpages. These are like branches on a tree, each representing different sections of your website.
  3. Content elements: Within each subpage, you can add content elements such as text, images or videos. These are the leaves on the branches that show the actual content that visitors will see.

This structure helps keep your website organized, making it easier to manage and update.

The hierarchical structure is the basic principle of page organisation in TYPO3. All pages lie in a tree in which every page can have subpages. This page tree represents the navigation in the backend and often also the URL structure of the website.

The structure has practical advantages. Editors see at a glance where a page is located and can move it by drag and drop. Permissions, settings and templates can be tied to parent pages and are inherited by subpages. This saves configuration.

A good structure follows visitors’ questions and not the company’s organisation. Group content by topic, limit the depth to a few levels and use understandable names. This helps users and search engines find content faster.

For SEO the structure is important: it influences internal linking, breadcrumbs and the weighting of pages. Flat, logically built areas make crawling easier. Pay attention to stable URLs and redirect with 301 when changing.

On multilingual websites the tree is mirrored or extended per language. Plan translation workflows so that structure and content stay in sync.

Use page types and folders to separate system content such as records from visible pages. This keeps the tree clear.

Review the structure regularly, remove outdated areas and merge content that overlaps.

We develop a page structure with you that guides visitors and makes editors’ work easier.

A clear structure pays off in the long term.